Have you been working on yourself for a while but still find yourself hooked by old issues and triggers?

Are you able to intellectually understand your issues but, despite your insight, continue to find yourself repeating the same old patterns?

To help people make the changes they want, I use a variety of proven, effective tools, both traditional and non-traditional because I've found that talking alone isn't enough to heal many issues.

I've been in practice for 40 years and have a warm, down to earth style, which is compassionate and insightful. Clients experience a sense of profound positive release and lightness after most sessions.

Heal your past for the last time. Trauma and depression requires more than just talk. Most traditional talk therapies do not go deep enough. Relief comes but only lasts a short while. I use Somatic Experiencing and EMDR to reach the core of your being to create lasting change. This is because it works on the deepest past of your consciousness and nervous system. Once that is healed, then we can change the emotions and thought patterns.

Powerful Results Beyond Thinking and Talking. Brainspotting and EMDR can change the way you feel and respond to things. Your life can be different.

While thinking and talking are essential to our moving forward in life, they are limited in what they can do for us. One of the limitations of talk therapy is that while it helps people feel better to some degree, it doesn't usually change a person's core responses. It only helps to understand and manage those responses.

EMDR and Brainspotting can change people's core responses.

You can respond differently to other people, events, situations, and things in general. You can feel differently about yourself.

See more at Andresencounseling.com

I offer counseling for young children (0-8), caregivers and families, pregnant women, and foster/adoptive parents. I use play, movement, and the family’s inherent wisdom to support families through challenging times. My specialties include working with traumatized children (including those who have experienced medical trauma), strengthening attachment relationships among family members (particularly in foster/adoptive families), helping children who have sensory integration problems, and providing support to families with children with developmental delays and complex medical histories. I also have years of experience working with children on the autism spectrum and with helping mothers experiencing post-partum depression. In addition to individual and family counseling, I offer parenting classes and therapeutic groups for children.